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     OP - March 20, 2015, 08:28 AM
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    modifying the practice of leaving space for the Tetragrammaton and adding it in a second copying-stage, left overlined space for these four words in the first copying-stage, and they were added during the proof-reading stage.


    http://www.thetextofthegospels.com/2015/03/nomina-sacra-their-origin-and-usefulness.html

    It seems that it was standard practice for a scribe to copy out something but when they came to a holy word they would leave a gap with dots above for a senior scribe to come along and fill in the holy bit, probably using a code - a nomen sacrum.

    Now arabic has loads of dots and dashes.......
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

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